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Monday, August 9, 2010

Old jail museum in Albion, Indiana, Noble County.

I seen this roof and had to know what it was. The man we were talking to told us it was the Old Jail Museum....of course it was not open. It was well worth walking an extra block or two to take a few photos. I could not believe it had been a jail.

I was going to title this post something along the lines of 'A man's home is his castle' but decided against it. And I thought about spreading the posts out over a couple of days but will just post the best ones here. The above part shows the jail ....

It was constructed in 1876, to house the convicts and to house the Sheriff's office and to also serve as his home. I cannot imagine living right alongside the inmates.Wonder what it felt like to call this home?

I clicked on this Name because the name is also the town I live in..ONLY Michigan not Indiana. I had no idea Indiana had a town named ALBION. Ours is pretty small but boy we have NOTHING that looks like this "castle" and for it to be a jail..hmmmAnyway you are quite right..never would even think about living in the same building.. how unsafe is that!! Nice photos.. :-)

I've been spending some time inside the Old Jail Museum (yep, I live in Albion, Caroldee!), and it really is beautiful in there -- and gloomy on the jail side. I've been going through photos from their collection, working on a history book for Arcadia Publishing. If you like the old jail, check out the Noble County Courthouse just a block away -- amazing place.